Heart transplant recipients can improve fitness and perform high intensity workouts

Heart transplant recipients' cardio-respiratory fitness is around 30 to 50 per cent lower than age-matched healthy sedentary individuals. As a result, exercise rehabilitation should be very important to these patients, and a University of Alberta study shows they can improve their overall physical fitness.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news166098692.html">Heart transplant recipients can improve fitness and perform high intensity workouts</a></p> <p>Heart transplant recipients' cardio-respiratory fitness is around 30 to 50 per cent lower than age-matched healthy sedentary individuals. As a result, exercise rehabilitation should be very important to these patients, and a University of Alberta study shows they can improve their overall physical fitness.</p>